I was IMing with one of my sons earlier this week and he mentioned that he wanted to try some personal goalsetting… something that he thought would be good for him, something that he’d never really done.
I had a bit of a twinge (“Shit, there’s another thing I failed to teach as a father…”) but I moved on quickly and suggested that we team up. It’s frequently better to let someone else know what goals I’m working on, I’ve found, and better yet if we’re doing it together — sort of a mutual support and accountability pact.
I actually put something called “Goal Posts” in my Real Joe business plan over a year ago, and it suddenly occurred to me that here was an opportunity to try it out. So yessterday I created a Goal Posts folder in my about-to-be-relaunched-yet-again message boards, and opened a private “Wigley” folder in there for the two of us to get going. And by the end of the day today, he and I had both posted our goals for the week.
The ironic thing was that his goals each included a little reflection/journal-type paragraph. None of mine did.